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Universe

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs//
  • United States//ˈjunəˌvɝs//
  • Australia//ˈjʉːnɪˌvɜːs//
  • New Zealand//ˈjʉːnəˌvøːs//

Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

    Meronyms: observable universe, Galaxy, Earth, earth

    Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.

    The Universe will always be more powerful and intelligent than the human beings.

Etymology

From Middle English, directly or via Old French univers, from Latin universum. See universe.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).